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AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said the company's move to Dallas had paid off by improving its access to highly talented workers. He also said the economic-stimulus package would have only a minor effect on AT&T because the money represents a small fraction of the $18 billion the company plans to invest this year.

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AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson says the company will continue with its plan to spend $18 billion to expand broadband wireless and fiber-to-the-home infrastructure, despite the uncertainty surrounding Net neutrality. Stephenson is confident the courts will either overturn or modify the rules.

AT&T chief Randall Stephenson said Thursday that variable pricing for mobile-data services was probably inevitable, but not necessarily in the near future.
"I don't know what the exact trigger is," the CEO
said when asked if the advent of LTE technology provided a rationale for ending unlimited usage packages. In a speech in Chicago, Stephenson said tighter regulation could crimp capital investment and job growth.

AT&T has introduced a new version of its Mobile Extension product that employs unified-communications services for businesses using Avaya's IP telephony communications solution, the companies said. The mobile-convergence package is aimed at keeping employees in the field networked with the home office through wireless and fixed-line services to give them "a seamless communications experience," according to an AT&T executive.

Akamai Technologies President and CEO Paul Sagan expects more companies to turn to Internet technologies and content as their pocketbooks are squeezed by the economy. "There are a few things you do in a downturn and one of them is listen to your customers and the other is overcommunicate," Sagan said.

Telling employees that AT&T is "committed to doing all we can to help preserve and protect jobs," CEO Randall Stephenson has elected not to take a salary bonus this year as the company moves to eliminate 12,000 positions -- the reduction was announced in December. AT&T will also freeze salaries of 120,000 managerial staffers, who represent 40% of the telecom's work force.